urbantrappistblogastery

I was prompted to think about control. Nothing specific, just the concept in general. So, this is hereby pronounced Control Week, with hopefully a post each day on what I’ve been controlling (i.e. your mind at the moment). And we’ll see where it goes, perhaps to a conclusion, a dead end, or [...]

As recently as three years ago, Jacobs Field was no more densely populated in the summer than in the winter. The thrill of the new stadium had waned, as had the success of Albert Belle and the corky crews of the mid-90s. So the renewed fervor - especially when coupled with the correlated [...]

When I went to Allyn’s last week, two cats were loitering around the patio entrance. I’m not talking jive here, meow; I mean real, furry, nimbly-bimbly cats. They weren’t strays; both had collars. They were quite amiable and I named them Beefeater (who never flinched from his post) and Woman (who [...]